[HPforGrownups] Re: News Flash! HBP covers released!

[Lindsay]

No: HPFGUIDX 125749

The cover shown by Mugglenet for the adult UK version clearly states: 

"Advanced
Potion-
Making
by
Libalius Borage"

The author's name is a bit hard to read, but the title is very clear. 
Your brightness/contrast on your monitor may make it hard to read.  ;)
 I put the picture through some Photoshop conversions, and I am 95%
sure that the author's name is Libalius Borage.  The e at the end is
the only thing really hard to read - it might be an accented i or a
funky o, but I am pretty sure it is an e.

The thing about the book makes it look like it is a movie prop, but HP
Lexicon shows that there wasn't a book called that in the previous
books.

Given how battered it is, and the fact that Dumbledore is on the other
two covers, it MAY be Dumbledore's book that Harry somehow ends up
with.

It may be Snape's old potion book.

It may be Voldemort's old potion book.

It may be all of the above.  :)

I don't see Ron taking potions this year, so it probably isn't his,
and since Harry didn't have this book last year, neither should Ginny
this year.

And I don't think the American version is a Pensieve - I think it's a
potion or a scrying bowl or something along those lines.  Harry has
his wand drawn and they both look determined about something.  Why
would they need their wands to confront a Pensieve?  Is it a portal to
someplace?  They look to be EQUALS, as well, which is very
interesting.

The UK kid's version show Dumbledore and Harry in battle surrounded by
fire.  Is there a dragon involved somewhere?  It looks almost as if
the fire is coming from Dumbledore's wand.  Is Dumbledore protecting
Harry from something?  They both look like whatever they are looking
at is very, er, frightening.  Perhaps Harry is wanting to go forward
and Dumbledore is holding him back for his own protection.  Is Harry
trying to save someone and Dumbledore is keeping him from doing so?

Dumbledore also has a bit of a mad look to him.  My first reaction
upon seeing Dumbledore's face was that that is the face of a dead man.
 Is Dumbledore going to die in this book?

Haha, I asked some very unanswerable questions.  =D

--lawless


On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:57:57 -0000, greatelderone
<greatelderone at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" <hannahmarder at y...>
> wrote:
> > Hannah:  The interesting thing about the Potions book is that it
> > looks so old and battered.  Now, I can't see Harry having a second
> > hand book, since he's not exactly strapped for cash, so I wondered
> > if this was a bit of a red herring.
> 
> GEO: I'm sure that it would look that way if it went through a few
> potions accidents and besides Harry's Fantastic Beasts book I recall
> wasn't exactly in the best shape either.
> 
> > We know that this is the book where we find out why DD trusts
> Snape,
> > and that there is 'something huge' about Lily Potter.  My theory
> is
> > that DD will show Harry the young Snape, and that book will
> > feature.
> 
> GEO: Explain to me again why they would feature something from a
> flashback scene and make it the cover of the HBP book.
> 
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